There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse,… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
If one burdens the future with one's worries, it cannot grow organically. I am filled with confidence, not that I shall succeed… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work,… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Life is good, after all...and that's what stays with me, even now, even when I'm about to be packed off to Poland. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Before, I always lived in anticipation . . . that it was all a preparation for something else, something "greater," more "genuine."… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Slowly but surely I have been soaking Rilke up these last few months: the man, his work and his life. And that… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
That I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
By 'coming to terms with life' I mean: the reality of death has become a definite part of my life; my life… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Greed probably figures in my intellectual life as well, as I attempt to absorb a massive amount of information with consequent mental… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The fact is I don't lead a simple enough inner life. I indulge in excesses, bacchanalia of the spirit. Perhaps I identify… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same.… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour.… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
We human beings cause monstrous conditions, but precisely because we cause them we soon learn to adapt ourselves to them. Only if we become… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
